The works of Laurence Sterne, Band 5

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Seite 67 - France already — and I know not the woman I should like so well for her substitute as yourself. 'Tis true, I am ninety-five in constitution, and you but twenty-five...
Seite 51 - I want to know you, Mr. Sterne, but it is fit you also should know who it is that wishes this pleasure. You have heard of an old Lord Bathurst, of whom your Popes and Swifts have sung and spoken so much ? I have lived my life with geniuses of that cast ; but have survived...
Seite 42 - tis no uncommon thing, my good Sancho, for one half of the world to use the other half of it like brutes, and then endeavour to make them so ! For my own part, I never look westward...
Seite 116 - There is so little true feeling in the herd of the world, that I wish I could have got an act of parliament, when the books first appeared, that none but wise men should look into them...
Seite 42 - It is by the finest tints and most insensible gradations that nature descends from the fairest face about St. James's to the sootiest complexion in Africa. At which tint of these is it that the ties of blood are to cease ? and how many shades must we descend lower still in the scale, ere mercy is to vanish with them?
Seite 81 - Hills) can produce ; — with a clean cloth on my table, and a bottle of wine on my right hand to drink your health. I have a hundred hens and chickens about my yard, and not a parishioner catches a hare, or a rabbit, or a trout, but he brings it as an offering to me.
Seite 51 - This nobleman, I say, is a prodigy ; for at eighty-five he has all the wit and promptness of a man of thirty. A disposition to be pleased, and a power to please others beyond whatever I knew : added to which, man of learning, courtesy, and feeling.
Seite 51 - This nobleman is an old friend of mine. — You know he was always the protector of men of wit and genius ; and has had those of the last century, Addison, Steele, Pope, Swift, Prior, &c.
Seite 43 - Sancho, exceeds your walk of ten miles in about the same proportion that a visit of human ity should one of mere form. — However, if you meant my Uncle Toby more, he is your debtor. — If I can weave the tale I have wrote into the work I am about, — 'tis at the...
Seite 103 - Coxwould, Nov. 15, 1767. Now be a good dear woman, my H , and execute these commissions well ; — and when I see you, I will give you a kiss. — There's for you ! — But I have something else for you which I am fabricating at a great rate, and that is my Sentimental Journey...

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